RANKIN Q&A

Notes from today’s workshop with Rankin, British photographer and director, co-founder of Dazed and Confused, founder of RANKIN and RANKINFILM agencies and HUNGER Magazine.

• Try to create unique imagery.
• Film and photography are the mediums to communicate with each other right now. But it’s become very competitive.
• Find the right commissioners for your work. When you bring your portfolio to places not looking for a job but looking for feedback an opinion.
• Do work for free – charities or people with no budget – plant a seed and it will grow
• Next trend? mixed reality but he’s not interested
• https://www.springstudios.com/
• https://www.bigskylondon.com/
• He was trained as a photographer and learnt director skills through work. Get good at your first passion
• Differences between photography and film. Similar on how you approach them but very different, each helps each other
• Learnt how to collaborate with film, before he thought of photography as a dictatorship
• Photography creates a moment, film creates loads of moments and stick them together to create a major moment
• It’s tougher to be a director, a film is easier to pull apart than a photo.
• Balance between pre-planned conceptualizing vs- mid-shoot improvisation.
• Great fashion photographers love fashion and could talk about it for ages. He doesn’t love fashion.
• Weekly photography quarantine challenges at Hunger Magazine.https://www.hungertv.com/editorial/rankin-photo-challenge-disconnect-photos-from-week-2/